Budget & Revenue
Decriminalizing Poverty: What Happened in the 2024 Session and What Still Needs to be Done?
Justice should not depend on what someone looks like or how much they have in their wallet. Yet a number...
Status of Key Policies that Promote Health Equity and Needed Progress (Session 2024 Recap)
Policy decisions have a significant impact on our ability to access affordable and comprehensive health coverage, connect with a health...
How We Fought to Invest in Families through a Fair, Family-focused Tax Code (Session 2024 Recap)
Most of us want to send our kids to well-funded public schools, to have access to affordable health care, and...
A Look at Critical Progress Made for K-12, Next Steps to Support Students (Session 2024 Recap)
Every child in Virginia should be able to attend a high-quality public school that helps them learn and thrive. Yet...
K-12 Funding in the Final 2024-2026 State Budget Compared to Governor’s Introduced (by Locality)
The budget signed by the governor for the budget years that begin on July 1, 2024...
Major Changes From The Conference Budget That Helped Get To A Final Budget
Families across Virginia want to live in communities with well-resourced schools, access to affordable health coverage, and state investments so...
Lawmakers Backed Off Plan to Pay for Critical Investments. How Did They Fund Them Anyways?
The governor recently signed a budget that maintained key investments originally passed by the General Assembly (GA) in March that...
Statement: Budget Leaders Maintain Many Key Investments, Miss Opportunity To Secure Ongoing Funding
Ashley C. Kenneth, President and CEO of The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis (TCI), released the following statement regarding the...
Where Virginia Stands When It Comes to Modernizing Our Tax Code
Creating broadly shared opportunity and prosperity relies on lawmakers choosing to invest our shared resources in the building blocks of...